Disorders Essay

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Today I had the opportunity to meet with a patient that suffers from social anxiety disorder. This patient has asked me to help her identify what her symptoms are and how it could affect her in the future. After research on this specific disorder here is what I have found. Social anxiety disorder affects your emotions and behavior. It can also cause significant physical symptoms. Some of the emotional and behavioral signs may include intense fear of interacting with strangers, feared of being judged, worrying about embarrassing yourself, fear of looking anxious, anxiety disrupts your daily routine, fear of being the center of attention and lack of eye contact. Physical signs of this disorder may include blushing, sweating, trembling, fast heartbeat, upset stomach, nausea, shaky voice, muscle tension, and ...view middle of the document...

If this type of anxiety disrupts your everyday life, you may have social anxiety disorder or another type of mental health condition that requires treatment to get better. Social anxiety disorder symptoms can change over time. They may flare up if you're facing a lot of stress or demands. Or if you completely avoid situations that would usually make you anxious, you may not have symptoms. Although avoidance may allow you to feel better in the short term, your anxiety is likely to persist over the long term if you don't get treatment.

The best course of treatment for social anxiety disorder is cognitive therapy which helps to identify anxieties and the situations that provoke the anxiety. When you first start the treatment you may feel uncomfortable addressing the fearful situations, but this plays a major role to your recovery. Many different types of cognitive-behavioral therapy are used to treat social anxiety disorders, which may include exposure therapy. You will be guided by a counselor and will have to face a feared situation until you no longer fear said situation, an example might be eating in public. Next, you and your counselor will go out to eat in a public place, you will do this over and over until you can eat in public by yourself without any fear. Social skills training will help you gain the skills you need to interact in social situations that you may never thought were possible until now. Your anxiety will be reduced as you become comfortable and as you prepare for those fearful situations. Cognitive reconstruction will help you identify and learn how to improve your thinking, which will help you handle various types of social situations that you once feared.

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Shonelle Best
HCA 240
6/21/2011
Blood Disorders
Within the human body there are two very important types of blood cells, the red blood cells and the white blood cells. The red blood cells operate in effort of carrying oxygen to the lungs. The white blood cells typically serve to defend tissues in the body that have the capability of setting up infections within the body. . There are different blood disorders that people of all ages and

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Eating Disorders
BEH/225
Stephanie Copp
July 9, 2014
Julie Bruno
Most people think that hunger is all in one’s stomach; however, research shows that this is not the case. Hunger is controlled by a complicated system of chemicals that transmit signals between one’s brain and the body. “The cells in the hypothalamus communicate with cells in other parts of the brain to coordinate the release and uptake of chemicals that help regulate how

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Running head: Digestive Disorders
Digestive Disorders
“Every year, millions of Americans are diagnosed with digestive disorders, ranging from the occasional upset stomach to the more life threatening colorectal cancer” (Digestive Disorders, n.d.). The function of the digestive system is to break down food consumed into energy (Huether, 2008). The gastrointestinal tract is the

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Dissociative Disorders
Amy Johnson
Psychopathology and Counseling-COUN 646
Professor Gilbert
Liberty University
December 4, 2014
ABSTRACT
Dissociative disorders have many variations. They are mainly characterized by an interruption of how a person sees their conscious life, what they remember, how they handle emotions, their behavior, and their perception. Typically the disorder arises as a reaction to a traumatic event with

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All of us, at one time or another has had a restless night sleep. We have tossed and turned and woke up the next morning feeling tired and restless. You may ask yourself if this means that you have a sleeping disorder. What kinds of sleeping disorders exist and what causes them. Some of us have heard terms like, insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea, nightmares, and night terror, but how do these sleep disorders effect an individual?
To understand

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Eating disorders are medical illnesses that involve critical disturbances in eating behavior. It can cause heart and kidney problems and even death. In these situations, a person eats or refuses to eat in an attempt to satisfy a psychological need rather than a physical need. Eating disorders are often characterized by a preoccupation with food and weight. There are three types of eating disorders, which are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa

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released. It was not easy getting back my relationship with him. Rather, creating a new, honest, supportive, and loving relationship with him.
I have many psychological and personality disorders. As a child I suffered physical, sexual, and psychological abuse. I am diagnosed as suffering PTSD, and am currently taking 30
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milligrams of Prozac a day for depression. My son suffered abandonment, neglect, uprooting, and an unstable family life

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Personality Disorders Overview
In order to understand disorders of personality is it necessary to have a clear understanding of what personality actually means. Every single person in the world has a unique personality different than everyone else. Our personalities are thought of as the way we act, think, believe, and feel that makes us different from each other (Nolen-Hoeksema, 2011). Personalities vary from person to person, and we all

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to her, "Hold in your stomach, Courtney." The words followed her all the way to a body-image therapy session when she was in high school.Ann Peterson-Cole, Ph.D., director of the Behavior Health Center in Idaho Falls, and an expert on body-image and eating disorders, says, "Many children come to me saying that they relate to whatever their mothers do. Children learn much of their actions from parents, and eating patterns are no

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syndromes and by the recurrent finding of high
correlations between somatic and emotional distress. Current
nosology tends to view somatization either in terms of a
discrete set of disorders or as superficial variations in illness
behavior superimposed on an underlying core of universal
affective, anxiety, and other primary disorders. Serious consideration
of cross-cultural variation leads us to ask whether
the predominately somatic forms of

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Running Head: EATING DISORDERS 1
Eating Disorders
Connie DePlonty
Bay Mills Community College
EATING DISORDERS 2
Abstract
We have all heard the typical stereotypes of the “perfect body.” Who has a perfect body and what does it look like? Are all girls supposed to be tiny and twig-like, and are all guys supposed to

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Cheryl L. Mclean
WAOL
Intro to Psychology
Eating Disorders
Chapters 12 and 13
February 18—24
Eating Disorders
Have you ever known anyone personally who has had an eating disorder? Is this a disorder that only affects teenagers? I’m a soon to be 47 year old who can say in my life time at least one in every 10 of my friends have suffered from some sort of eating disorder. I can also say that a few of my friends

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There are two main types of eating disorders, and one that has not yet been confirmed as a disease. These are Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge-Eating Disorder. These disorders are not due to a failure of will or behavior, but are real, treatable illnesses in which certain poor patterns of eating take on a life of their own.
These disorders usually co-occur with other illnesses such as depression, substance abuse, and anxiety